Senior Traffic Engineer

Job Title - Senior Traffic Engineer

Location - Cedar Rapids, IA | Des Moines, IA | Iowa City, IA | Muscatine, IA

Job Type - Hybrid

Requisition ID - 11296

Stanley Consultants is seeking a Senior Traffic Engineer to support our Traffic Engineering and Safety practices, primarily based in our Des Moines office. However, strong consideration will be given to candidates seeking to work from one of our other Iowa offices: Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, or Muscatine.

• Develop innovative and practical technical solutions.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and internal teams.
• Contribute creative ideas to project planning and development.
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to client service and mentoring junior engineers.
• Support assignments across other Stanley Consultants’ offices as needed.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Serve as a Project Manager, Project Lead, or Task Lead on the development of traffic and safety projects.
• Design and Prepare traffic signal plans for new and modified intersections, including construction sequencing, pavement marking plans, signing plans, and traffic control plans.
• Design and Prepare roadway lighting plans, traffic signal interconnect plans and other Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) infrastructure.
• Conduct and prepare a variety of analysis and traffic impact studies, including traffic impact analysis, traffic signal warrant analysis, intersection design studies, safety studies, bicycle, and pedestrian planning studies.
• Provide technical guidance and perform quality control reviews for traffic engineering studies and design projects led by other project managers or team leads.
• Support local and national practice areas with traffic engineering expertise.
• Mentor and supervise junior engineers, fostering their technical and professional growth.
• Represent Stanley Consultants in technical meetings with agency representatives, clients, and contractors.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering; Master of Science in Civil Engineering is a plus.
• At least 8-10 years of relevant experience in traffic engineering, transportation planning, transportation safety, and/or Intelligent Transportation Systems.
• Iowa Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Familiarity with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), Iowa DOT and local agency traffic engineering standards.
• Proficiency with traffic analysis software required; VISSIM or other microsimulation software is a plus.
• Membership in ITE or other professional organizations aligned with traffic engineering.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) or Road Safety Professional 1 (RSP1) certification, or the ability to obtain.
• Direct experience with DOT, local county, municipal, and/or developer driven traffic engineering projects and project development.
• A working knowledge of MicroStation or other CAD software packages.
• Having presented at local or regional professional organization conferences.